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Synopsis
From “the sea of rags” in the opening poem of Dorie LaRue’s Mad Rains to the collection’s end, “History has taught/ us all the real price of land/ and rag tail dreams,” the reader is immersed in the reality of Bangladesh as witnessed by an American poet who has taught there and observed in its rural hospitals. In this heart-made view of how a people lives “My horse’s stall in /Shreveport, Louisiana, USA, / is better than these muddy caves / the best of them like the concrete hovels / of some previous civilization." the power of Ms. LaRue’s work jolts us with her uncanny talent for the right word and the sharpest detail.
—Brendan Galvan
“Some things do not belong in poems,” writes Dorie DeWitt LaRue in one of these vivid poems set in Bangladesh. But what does her embrace exclude, Whitmanian as it is? Nothing appears to escape her humanely generous vision. These poems as they thread their way—their emotionally keen as well as keenly observant way—through crowded scenes bring to mind the Dhaka rickshaws, which are both “art and daily pain machines”… except that in Mad Rains the pain, transformed by art, exhilarates.
—David Havird, author of Map Home
This volume of life-changing poetry comes on like a sudden storm. Breathless, immediate, and dense with imagery, Dorie DeWitt LaRue’s poems immerse us in a place and a people we will never forget. Similar in feel to a photographic collage, this collection should be taken in as a whole, with its brutal, at times devastating, moments colliding with the transformative ones—those that reflect the resilience of the human spirit. Once having experienced Mad Rains, we too can declare with the poet, a teacher-become-student, that indeed “Nothing in Bangladesh leaves me alone.”
—Ashley Havird, author of Lightening Struck
In Dorie Larue’s Mad Rain the title phrase moves between trope and climatological occurrence. As either, the articulations in this set of poems are of this world and another we travel to only in the measured breath of poems, poems unflinching, fierce, disarming, transformative, shape-shifting, sacred.
—Darrell Bourque, former Louisiana Poet Laureate and author of Megan’s Guitar and Other Poems from Acadie
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À propos de l'auteur
Dorie LaRue’s first novel, Resurrecting Virgil (The Backwaters Press), won the Omaha Prize for Fiction in 2000. Her poetry collections include The Private Frenzy (University of Nebraska Press) and Seeking the Monsters (New Spirit Press). She is a recipient of a Louisiana Division of the Arts Fellowship, a Shreveport Regional Arts Council Fellowship, and four grants from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. LaRue’s work has appeared in such journals as The Southern Review, The American Poetry Review, The Maryland Review, and The Massachusetts Review. LaRue attended Louisiana Tech University and received two BAs in English and psychology, and an MA in counseling. She graduated from the University of Louisiana with a Ph.D. in creative writing and early American literature and where she studied under the tutelage of Ernest Gaines and Darrell Borque. She has attended both Bread Loaf and Squaw Valley writing conferences. She has taught at Grambling State University and Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and is currently teaching American literature at LSUS. In the summer of 2014 she taught ESL at the International University of Business, Agriculture, and Technology, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and spent some weekends touring rural hospitals with Bangladesh Health Project medical workers. She lives with her significant other, four cats, and a Labrador Retriever in Shreveport, Louisiana, USA, where she enjoys long distant cycling.
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Mad Rains
Vendeur : Revaluation Books, Exeter, Royaume-Uni
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